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BILL FILE. a No. 426,996. Patented Apr. 29, 1890.

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PATENT HENRY JOHNSON, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,996, dated April29, 1890.

Application filed January 18, 1890. Serial No. 337,335. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Washington, in'the District of Columbia, have bill-files orpaper-filing devices in which unfiling-wires are arranged to coact withimpaling-wires, so that bills or other papers on file can be readilytransferred from one to the other when any particular bill or paper isto be examined or removed and replaced, and is additional to theimprovement in bill-files set forth in my specification forming part ofUnited States Letters Patent No. 417,043, dated December 10, 1889.

The present invention consists in certain novel combinations ofpeculiarly-constructed parts, as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

An object of this invention in common with said patented invention is tofurnish paperfiling devices suited to the requirements of dilferent usesor of the various businesses in which such devices are or may beemployed. Numerous modifications are therefore necessary.

The distinguishing objects of the present invention are, first,provision at once for unfiling the superposed bills, as the papers arehereinafter termed, so as to expose any individual one at will, and forthe transfer of the whole to a string or strings for tying them intobundles without any provision for either purpose in the individualfiles, and, secondly, provision in a simple andin expensive Way forrigidly uniting the impaling-hook with the body of each individual file,so that the hook shall permanently project with its sides at about rightangles to the back of said body, as required, and may extend to anyrequired extent below the file-body with but a single sharp bend, andthe file shall possess the necessary adaptation to endure rough andhurried handling.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation of a bill-file or frame offiles embodying all the several features of this invention andillustrating the operation of removing or exposing to view any desiredbill. Fig. 2 represents a section on the line 2 2,Fig.1,showing theimpaling-hook in its filing and fastened conditions by full and dottedlines, respectively. Fig. 3 is a small-scale edge view of one of theindividual files in connection with the unfiling-wire, illustrating thetransfer of the bills to a bundling-string. Figs. 4 and-5 arerespectively a face view and a sectional edge view of a modifiedindividual file, Fig. 5 showing also a modified unfiling-wire. Fig. 6 isa different elevation of said modified unfilingwire, and Fig. 7 is anelevation of another modified unfiling-wire.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

A leading feature of the present invention is an unfiling-wire A or A orA having at one or each extremity a tubular end orlongitudinal socket.9, provided with a transverse threading-hole t and operating incombination with individual files B or B having impaling-hooks h, whichmay consequently be inseparably attached in any preferred way andconstructed without threading-holes, which is found to be important,especially in the manufacture of cheap styles. Applied to the sharppoints of the unfastened impalinghooks, as shown in Fig. 1 or 5, theimproved unfiling-wires serve for transferring the bills from theformer, so that any particular bill may be readily exposed to View orremoved and replaced at will, and by threading the hole 25 with astring, as illustrated by Fig. 3, the bills may be readily transferredto the latter by the same simple part of the filing apparatus, so as tobe tied into bundles'for storage. I

In the billfile represented by Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the unfiling-wire A isof U shape, with a socket s at each end, formed by short tubes appliedto the respective ends of a piece of suitably-bent ordinary wire, thelatter being of the same thickness as the impaling-hooks h of theindividual files B. Two or more of the individual files are mounted sideby side on a frame 0 or other suitable support common to all. This maypreferably be a simple frame adapted to be hung on or attached to awall, door, or the like, and provided withsuspending-hooks 7i, engagedby eyes c on the respective individual files, the latter having lateralprojections f at their lower ends to engage with the lower bar of theframe, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This is not, however, an essentialfeature of the present invention. Each of the individual files has afasteninghook 7L2, which projects rigidly from the filebody b andengages with a re-entrant bend near the point of the elasticimpaling-hook, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The unfiling-wire Aconnects the unfastened hooks of two adjoining individual files, asshown in Fig. 1, so that the bills may be passed from one file to theother in exposing or removing a bill, as aforesaid, and may mask thesharp points of the two impaling-wires when the latter are fastened, asshown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. I11 transferring the bills tobundling-string, one end of the unfiling-wire may receive the bills andthe other end he threaded with the string, as shown in Fig. 3.

To provide for so attaching the impaling hook it to the body Z) of eachindividual file that said hook shall project rigidly and strongly fromthe body with its sides sub stantially atright angles to the back of thefile and may extend to any required extent below the file-body with buta single sharp bend, as aforesaid, I provide its heel end with a shortfastening-stud .2, Figs. 2 and 5, at right angles to the adjoining shankportion and provide the body Z) of each file with a hole y perpendicularto the back of the file to receive said stud at the distance of an inch(more or less) from the lower edge of the body, together with meanscomprising lateral abutments at the front of the file-body for laterallysupporting said shank portion of the hook between said hole and loweredge, the heel end of the hook being finally made fast in position inany approved way.

In the preferred joint forming part of said file (represented by Figs. 1to 3) the stud .2 is simply riveted fast, and said means for laterallysupporting the shank portion consists of a perforated lug as, integralwith the file-body, through which the hook extends, the sides of thelongitudinal bore of said lug forming such lateral abutments at thefront of the file-body.

In the modified individual file B (represented by Figs. f and 5) theshank portion of the impaling-hook occupies a groove m in the face ofthe file-body b, forming such lateral abutments, and said shank portionis soldered fast in said groove. The stud .2 may also be riveted,clinched, or soldered fast within the hole y.

The modified unfiling wires A and A (shown, respectively,in Figs. 5, 6,and 7) have said sockets s with threading-holes t at one end only, theother end being provided with a ring 7', by which to hang up the wire onthe fastening-hook 7L2 of the file when it is not in use. i 1

Other like modifications will suggest themselves to those skilled in theart, and details which have not been specified may be of any approveddescription. The parts may, for example, be made by any suitableprocesses, of any approved materials, and of shapes and sizes to suitthe trade, and may be united by joints of any approved kind.

I am aware that in combination with a pair of tubular uprights in anindividual file for letters and the like a removable bent transfer-wirehas been employed that is of U shape, except that it has necessarily onelong arm and one short arm. My U-shaped un filing-wire has necessarilyuniform ends of equal length. It coacts with two individual files eachcomplete in itself as a filing device, and in common with the singleunfiling wires shown in Figs. 5 to 7 it provides for unfiling and tyingup papers in combination with individual files which are wholly withoutany provision for these purposes, and may consequently be cheaplymanufactured and freely used in any required number.

I am also aware that it is not broadly new to rigidly attach a recurvcdimpaling-hook to a file-body so that it shall project at right angles tothe face of the latter; but so far as I am informed this has not beforebeen accomplished without repeated sharp bends in the wire, each ofwhich materially increases the cost of the files and militates againstmaking the hook of spring-wire, which should be the material used.Moreover, with my particular joints between the wire and the file-body Iam enabled to extend the hook below the file-body to any desired extentwithout added bends, which has not before been accomplished, so far as Iam advised.

Having thus described the said improvement, I claim as my invention anddesire to patent under this specification- 1. In combination withindividual files (one or more) having sharp-pointed impalingwires, adetached unfiling-wire having at one or each extremity a longitudinalsocket provided with a transverse threading-hole to receive abundling-strin g, substantially as set forth.

2. In an improved individual file, a rccurved impaling-hook constructedwith a short fastening-stud, which projects rearwardly at its heel end,and with a shank portion extending downward at about right angles tosaid stud and merging into the hook portion without any further sharpbend, in combination with a file-body provided with a hole perpendicularto its back at some distance from its lower edge, and with lateralabutments at the front of the file-body, which afford lateral support tosaid shank portion between said hole and said lower edge, substantiallyas set forth.

HENRY J OIINSON.

Vitnesses:

J AS. L. EWIN, Din '11) P. WOLHAUPTER.

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